SCENE: A Very Sus Clip

O' false light that skulks the darkness,

does thou hear the chimes which spell your demise?

Revel in the night's last requiem,

for we, the Trab(あ)ul Twins, La-Roux and Sachi'in;

shall--- expose--- your--- sin~!

"AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

I quickly click PAUSE on the video, just as an all too familiar face inside the screen pans for a closeup. I am far too acquainted with that shit-eating grin, since I see it every waking day. Second-hand cringe aside...

That's Madi-san.

It HAS to be Madi-san. The French cap, the purple hair over one eye, the shit-eating grin. Her clothes are a little different, but with great certainty, I can say that this is...

"Whatcha watching, Aya-chan?"

"Gahhh!!!!!!"

Madi-san pops out left-side of the high chair I am sitting on, clinging to the comfy velvety side. Spooning a mouthful of strawberry yogurt into my wide open mouth, she tilts my open jaw shut like she was roughly closing the lid of a music box, all the while giggling mischievously.

"Got'em!", Madi-san is mighty proud of herself, puffing out her ginormous chest swelling with pride at another prank well done.

"Mmmnfpn."

"Can't hear you with the spoon in your mouth, say aaaaaaaahhhhh~"

To be honest, the yogurt was pretty good, our other roommate, Sachiko was probably saving it in the fridge. But Madi-san will be Madi-san, its her way or no way, even if she doesn't know the wey at all.

"... I was about to say: is this you, Madi-san?"

Turning the monitor screen of the beat-up clunker of a monitor towards her, CURRENT YEAR Madi-san comes face to face with with a younger version of herself.

A small "oh!" escapes her lips.

It IS Madi-san!

"Nope!"

"『ふざけるな！！！』" [1]

I throw my hands up in the air to show her that I was not buying her schtick.

"Why are you watching graduated [vtuubas] anyway?"

"[vtuubas]...? It just came up on my recommendations..."

"A tuuba," Madi-san explains so that even a filthy casual like me could understand, "is someone who uses a virtual avatar to livestream on the Ci-Byss."

A whole bunch of words have been thrown at me that make no sense at all, even if I understand the words individually, strung together they might as well be written in hieratic script! The best I could get is that the person on screen is both real and not real at the same time, which on is it?!?!

"Come on Aya-chan! You should know this! Aren't you from the [Old Continent]?!"

"I'm sorry for not buying into this part of subculture!!"

Pointing to the screen, "Anyway, this is obviously YOU!"

"Nope, that's the famous tuuba [La-Roux]."

She's just screwing with me right now. My left hand is a tiny, trembling ball of annoyance right now.

"You ARE Madison Delaroux, correct?"

"Why yes, that's moi'! And that," Madi-san points to her younger onscreen self, "...is [La-Roux], famous tuub---"

"Arrrrrgh!!!!!"

Suppressing my urge for maritime violence, even I can see that this was going nowhere. Like a mass murderess who uses tiny bombs to blow up an island and takes the secret of how she did it to her grave, Madi-san is never going to admit that she IS [La-Roux]. But I've been around Madi-san for long enough to know she's a blabbermouth when it comes to her "feats" exposing conspiracies...

"Oh that's a shame."

"Wha... what's a shame?"

"I would have loved ---- to hear exploits about the great veetuuba La-Roux, but since you OBVIOUSLY don't know anything..."

"W-wait!", Madi-san now crossing her arms across her chest, "Now see here, Aya-chan! I know just as much about La-Roux as anyone can in New Coimbra!" Nodding her head earnestly with her eyes closed, as if in agreement with the unseen (Madison) Not-La-Roux.

"Then you can tell those stories to both me and Sachiko-senpai over dinner."

Sooner or later she will slip up, start referring to herself as La-Roux, and...

"L2OPSEC, good luck doxxing me when I am behind seven proxies!", Madi-san twirls away from the chair, cupping one hand to the side of her mouth while saying that. I have no idea what any of her [Madiisms] [3] meant, but I am pretty sure that she threw down a some sort of gauntlet while slapping the side of my face with a white glove, all without me knowing already!

"Oh, last two things!"

"What?"

"Chicken or beef for dinner? Gotta decide before Sachi'in comes home!"

"Chicken."

"Ogey!"

Madi-san seems to be in high spirits that I have picked up her proverbial white glove, although...

"Hey Madi-san, what's the second thing?"

Screeching to a diagonal halt before the kitchen parting,

"Remember to subscribe to Trab(あ)ul Twins .Chan!"

[1] 『ふざけるな！』means "Stop screwing with me!" in Moonrune.

[2] [Old Continent] - The landmass across the [Ice Wall], now overrun with skeletons and the living dead.

[3] [Madiisms] - Nonsense words that make no sense at all when said in [Vespanola].